Do as I do
Better late than never. I’d required my students to write a plan for the semester and keep a reflective journal on what they’re learning. It’s an experiment, this class: a chance for the students to get credit for self-directed learning. So they’re each learning something different, something they’re interested...
Robotics: making, programming, competing
You can see it in their faces: the broad grins, the light shining in their eyes. You can hear it in their voices: “This is so cool!” These are the signs of students who have successfully done something that they’ve never done before. They’ve made something themselves, and got...
Anuther kase four programing
As I go from student to student, helping them debug their program, it strikes me that there’s a very simple reason why teaching programming is a help for all students. So many of them have simple typographic errors: three n’s in “running,” leaving out the n in “column,” etc....